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Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, one of 26 competitive Tony Award categories, is presented annually to a leading actress in a Broadway musical since 1947.

Tony Award for Best Choreography

The Tony Award for Best Choreography is an annual Tony Award honoring choreography in Broadway productions, awarded since 1947; Bob Fosse holds the record with eight wins, and shared wins are permitted.

Tony Award for Best Costume Design

The Tony Award for Best Costume Design honors Broadway costume designers; a 1947 original category, split into Dramatic and Musical in 1960-1961 and into Play and Musical awards since 2005.

Tony Award for Best Musical

The Tony Award for Best Musical is the annual award given to the producers of the best new Broadway musical of the eligibility season. Added by 1949, restricted to the 41 eligible Broadway theatres, with classics routed to Best Revival; the 2026 winner was Schmigadoon!.

Tony Awards

Tony Awards (Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre): annual Broadway theatre honors established 1947 by the American Theatre Wing, named for Antoinette Perry; first ceremony April 6, 1947 at the Waldorf Astoria; presented by Tony Award Productions (Broadway League and Wing), voted by 857 designated theatre-community voters for 2026.

Tony Banks (musician)

Tony Banks (born 1950) is the English keyboardist and main songwriter of Genesis, formed at Charterhouse; also solo rock albums from 1979 and Naxos orchestral works Seven, Six Pieces, and Five.

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto, 1926–2023), American singer and NEA Jazz Master known for "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"; pre-rock pop star turned interpreter of the Great American Songbook who won 19 Grammys and, with Lady Gaga, became the oldest artist with a No. 1 album.

Tony Berg

Tony Berg (born 1954) is a Los Angeles record producer, session guitarist, and A&R executive; founder of Zeitgeist Studio, producer of Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher and boygenius' the record, and the Geffen executive who signed Beck.

Tony Bongiovi

Tony Bongiovi (born 1947, Raritan, New Jersey), American record producer, engineer, and studio designer; Motown engineer at 17, founder and acoustic designer of New York's Power Station Studios in 1977, producer of the Ramones, Talking Heads, Meco's Star Wars, and cousin of Jon Bon Jovi.

Tony Booth (actor)

Tony Booth, born Anthony George Booth (1931–2017), English actor best known as Mike Rawlins, the 'Scouse git' son-in-law in BBC's Till Death Us Do Part (1966–75), also father of Cherie Blair; played Sidney Noggett in the Confessions films.

Tony Britton

Tony Britton (Anthony Edward Lowry Britton, 1924–2019), English stage, film and television actor; West End and RSC actor, star of Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Day of the Jackal, and the sitcoms Robin's Nest and Don't Wait Up; father of Fern Britton.

Tony Burrows

Tony Burrows (Anthony Burrows), British session singer born 1943 in Exeter, lead voice of four simultaneous 1970 hits: Edison Lighthouse's Love Grows, White Plains, Brotherhood of Man, and the Pipkins, plus First Class's Beach Baby.

Tony Burton

Tony Burton (1937–2016), American character actor and former professional boxer from Flint, Michigan, best known as trainer Tony "Duke" Evers in the first six Rocky films; also Assault on Precinct 13, The Shining, Frank's Place.

Tony Campos

Tony Campos (born 1973) is the American metal bassist and founding member of Static-X, later of Fear Factory, Ministry, Soulfly, Prong, Possessed, and Asesino; key facts include Wisconsin Death Trip's US million-plus sales and the 2018 Static-X relaunch.

Tony Christie

Tony Christie, stage name of Anthony Fitzgerald (born 1943), English pop singer from Conisbrough known for "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo", a 1971 hit that topped the UK chart for seven weeks in 2005 with Peter Kay for Comic Relief.

Tony Clifton

Tony Clifton: fictional Vegas lounge singer created by Andy Kaufman with Bob Zmuda, played by both; famous for the Taxi firing, Dinah! egg incident, and Man on the Moon.

Tony Cox (actor)

Tony Cox (Joseph Anthony Cox, born 1958) is an American actor, 3 ft 6 in tall, known as Marcus in Bad Santa and Bad Santa 2, an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, and roles in Me, Myself & Irene and Oz the Great and Powerful.

Tony Curran

Tony Curran (Anthony Curran, born 1969, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor trained at RSAMD, known for Red Road (BIFA and BAFTA Scotland winner), Datak Tarr in Defiance, King James I in Mary & George, and Lord Lovat in Outlander: Blood of My Blood.

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis (Bernard Herschel Schwartz, 1925–2010) was an American actor, born to Hungarian Jewish immigrants, star of Some Like It Hot, Sweet Smell of Success, The Defiant Ones, and Spartacus, with over 100 films and one Oscar nomination.

Tony Dallara

Tony Dallara, real name Antonio Lardera, was an Italian singer born in Campobasso who won the Sanremo Festival in 1960 with "Romantica" and recorded the hit "Come prima".

Tony Dalton

Tony Dalton (Álvaro Luis Bernat Dalton), Mexican-American actor born 1975 in Laredo, Texas; known for Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul, Sr. Ávila, Hawkeye, and Daredevil: Born Again.

Tony Danza

Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza, 1951), American actor and former boxer; starred as Tony Banta on Taxi (1978-1983) and Tony Micelli on Who's the Boss? (1984-1992); later talk show host, Broadway performer, and Standards & Stories cabaret singer.

Tony de la Rosa

Tony de la Rosa (1931–2004) was a Mexican American conjunto accordionist, vocalist, and bandleader from Sarita, Texas, who reshaped conjunto by adding drums and amplification in the 1950s.

Tony De Vit

Tony De Vit (1957–1998), also known as TDV, was an English DJ, producer and remixer, resident at London after-hours club Trade and a Kiss FM DJ, who pioneered UK hard house through labels Jump Wax and TDV and hits like Burning Up and The Dawn.

Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David

Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David, the NCIS pairing nicknamed "Tiva", played by Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo; their romance spanned 10-plus seasons and the 2025 Paramount+ spinoff NCIS: Tony & Ziva, cancelled after one season.

Tony Dow

Tony Dow (1945–2022), American actor, director, and sculptor, played Wally Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963), later directed TV episodes and exhibited bronze sculpture; his death was briefly misreported.

Tony Ganios

Tony Ganios (October 21, 1959 – February 18, 2024) was an American actor from Brooklyn, New York, known as Perry in The Wanderers (1979) and Anthony 'Meat' Tuperello in the Porky's films, plus Die Hard 2 and Rising Sun.

Tony Gardner

Tony Gardner names two entertainers: an English actor and former GP born 1964 (My Parents Are Aliens, Lead Balloon, Last Tango in Halifax, Struck Off and Die) and an American makeup effects artist born c. 1965 (Alterian, 127 Hours, Hocus Pocus, Daft Punk helmets).

Tony Gilroy

Tony Gilroy (born 1956) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer, son of playwright Frank D. Gilroy, known for the Bourne screenplays, Michael Clayton, Rogue One, and creating the Star Wars series Andor.

Tony Giorgio

Tony Giorgio (Joseph Anthony Giorgio, 1923-2012), Italian-American actor and magician, played Bruno Tattaglia in The Godfather (1972), Frank Palancio in Magnum Force, and was a Magic Castle close-up card magician.